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Jade Empire's Support Styles

Storm Dragon: The power of lightning is harnessed in this attack, shocking your enemies and freezing them in place for a few moments. Although it drains a very little bit of energy over time, there's very little chance your foes will still be standing for more than a few seconds. If you do want to do some real damage with this style, simply enable Chi strike mode and punch away.

Paralyzing Palm: Just like you'd expect from a style with this name, hitting your opponents with strikes in this style will stop him in his tracks, allowing you to switch to a Martial style for the finishing blows. Initiate a Harmonic combo with this style and you'll be able to finish it extremely quickly with one of your other styles.

Hidden Fist: Some might call using this style "fighting dirty", but we all know that everything is fair in combat. Practitioners of this Closed Fist style will do whatever it takes to win, including throwing dirt in the eyes of opponents or keeping a hand behind their back until the foe is confused, then striking quickly.This style's area attack is particularly effective, as well, knocking down large groups of enemies at once.

Spirit Thief: If you're ever getting low on Chi (or Health, since you can turn Chi into Health with a press of the white button), you can use this style to steal some from your foes. Every quick strike will leech a bit of energy from him, while the Power attack will actually take them from afar, and you'll be able to see the tendrils of Chi coming back to you. It won't do any real damage, but it'll help you keep your magic and health energy levels high.

Support Styles are but one of the many different types of styles found in Jade Empire, and relying too much on one particular style could get you killed if you're not careful. For more info on the rest of the game's various Styles, be sure to check out our continuing coverage, as well as our review of BioWare's latest masterpiece!